"Sound Thinking: Phase III: Mimesis": I've been calling myself a "Sound Thinker" since 1975.  The word-play is obvious: A "Sound Thinker" can mean both a reasonable & rational person who gives careful consideration to what they're thinking about AND it can be a person who thinks about sound.  However, I add another layer of meaning: a Sound Thinker is someone who somehow manifests sound in their thoughts.  I could be more specific but I want to confine myself here to just explaining this movie.  Phase III: Mimesis is something where I listen to instructions through headphones that tell me what to mime.  Simultaneously, a tape player on my belt plays the sounds through a portable battery-powered speaker, also on my belt.  The sounds are the ones I'm miming playing.  I thought of this in 1996 but probably didn't perform it until July, 1997, when I was in Hungary for a series of neoist events, The Summer of Neoism as some called it.  Alas, despite repeated performances, mostly, if not entirely, outside under guerrilla circumstances, this was never vaudeo-documented.  The result is that I only have bad footage of one rehearsal in my house in Pittsburgh.  The public part of the sound isn't there & the vaudeo sound has an enormous amount of hum that I failed to get rid of.  What I did for this was take the public audio tape meant to be played through the portable speaker & used that as the sound here.  Unfortunately, for reasons unknown to me, the audio tape was several minutes longer than the vaudeo & completely out-of-sync in more ways than just that.  I had to finesse the edit quite a bit to even get it to this point.  Ideally, I'd just reshoot the whole thing under better circumstances but, at this point in time 23 years later, that's more trouble than making this imperfect edit.  Despite the limitations, the idea comes across & there are some nice moments.  - May 31, 2019E.V. note from tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE  

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